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The Passive Fire Protection Nobody Talks About Until It Fails
Fire compartmentation is the part of your building’s fire protection strategy that you cannot see, rarely think about, and almost never test. It is also, in many buildings, the part that has quietly failed. Not dramatically, but incrementally, through years of routine building works, service installations, and maintenance activity. Sam Burgess, Evolution Life Safety Systems, examines why compartmentation failures are so common, so invisible, and so consequential.